The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
TERESA OF AVILAThere are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
More Teresa of Avila Quotes
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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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